git-annex-add - adds files to the git annex
Adds the specified files to the annex. If a directory is
specified, acts on all files inside the directory and its subdirectories. If
no path is specified, adds files from the current directory and below.
Files that are already checked into git and are unmodified, or
that git has been configured to ignore will be silently skipped.
If annex.largefiles is configured, and does not match a file,
git annex add will behave the same as git add and add the
non-large file directly to the git repository, instead of to the annex. (By
default dotfiles are assumed to not be large, and are added directly to git,
but annex.dotfiles can be configured to annex those too.) See the git-annex
manpage for documentation of these and other configuration settings.
Large files are added to the annex in locked form, which prevents
further modification of their content unless unlocked by
git-annex-unlock(1). (This is not the case however when a repository is in a
filesystem not supporting symlinks.)
This command can also be used to add symbolic links, both symlinks
to annexed content, and other symlinks.
# git annex add foo bar
add foo ok
add bar ok
# git commit -m added
- --no-check-gitignore
- Add gitignored files.
- --force-large
- Treat all files as large files, ignoring annex.largefiles and
annex.dotfiles configuration, and add to the annex.
- --force-small
- Treat all files as small files, ignoring annex.largefiles and
annex.dotfiles and annex.addsmallfiles configuration, and add to git.
- --backend
- Specifies which key-value backend to use.
- file matching options
- Many of the git-annex-matching-options(1) can be used to specify files to
add.
- For example: --largerthan=1GB
- --jobs=N
-JN
- Adds multiple files in parallel. This may be faster. For example:
-J4
- Setting this to "cpus" will run one job per CPU core.
- --update
-u
- Like git add --update, this does not add new files, but any updates
to tracked files will be added to the index.
- --dry-run
- Output what would be done for each file, but avoid making any
changes.
- --json
- Enable JSON output. This is intended to be parsed by programs that use
git-annex. Each line of output is a JSON object.
- --json-progress
- Include progress objects in JSON output.
- --json-error-messages
- Messages that would normally be output to standard error are included in
the json instead.
- --batch
- Enables batch mode, in which a file to add is read in a line from stdin,
the file is added, and repeat.
- Note that if a file is skipped (due to not existing, being gitignored,
already being in git, or doesn't meet the matching options), an empty line
will be output instead of the normal output produced when adding a
file.
- -z
- Makes the --batch input be delimited by nulls instead of the usual
newlines.
- Also the
git-annex-common-options(1) can be used.
Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>